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Fisheries library goes digital, thousands of materials freely downloadable
Thousands of fish farmer-friendly materials, journal articles, and books written by scientists and researchers of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) are freely searchable and downloadable over the ...
- January 29, 2020
Towards sustainable lobster farming: Research making headway at SEAFDEC/AQD
Craving for lobster tails but on a tight budget? Try slipper lobster – it’s sweet, tasty, and all tail. The slipper lobster, locally known as pitik-pitik, may not be as famous as their cousins, the spiny lobsters or banagan, ...
- June 7, 2022
Sandfish: expensive, endangered, and ecologically essential
Sandfish, or Holothuria scabra, is one of the most threatened tropical sea cucumbers because of its high price, reaching up to $1,600 per kilogram (approximately P80,800) when processed and dried into trepang or beche-de-mer ...
- May 30, 2020
'Quinta' losses: Damage to WV agri, fishery reaches P132M
Typhoon “Quinta” left P132.63 million worth of damage to rice, high-value commercial crops (HVCC) and the fishery sector in the provinces of Western Visayas. Department of Agriculture (DA) regional executive director Remelyn ...
- November 5, 2020
Production and delivery of milkfish, crab seeds unhampered despite lockdowns
Production and delivery of aquaculture seeds remain uninterrupted at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo despite the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed in Iloilo ...
- April 29, 2020
P30-M aquaculture feed mill eyed in WV
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has tapped the expertise of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center - Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) to develop a P30- million commercial-scale aquaculture ...
- January 21, 2023
Backyard catfish farming, an accessible source of income for Filipinos
The simplicity of catfish farming makes it a viable source of income and food for rural households that are willing to stick it out for three to five months during which the native catfish can reach 80 to 150 grams and are ...
- January 18, 2020
Expert warns crab farmers against ‘fake’ king crablets
Losses experienced by some crab farmers in the Philippines were traced to the very low survival of crablets that were misidentified as the popular king crab. Farmers prefer to culture king crab because it grows bigger and ...
- May 23, 2020
PCAARRD initiates tilapia farming
An initiative of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD) started making tilapia farming accessible to selected ...
- November 11, 2020
Freshwater prawn, a sustainable alternative to tiger shrimp?
Growing up to a foot long, three to a kilo, and with a taste very much likened to lobster and tiger shrimp, one would wonder why not more people in the Philippines are farming freshwater prawns. Locally known as ulang or ...
- March 14, 2020